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Recent Examples of work camp
Apes together are strong enough to break out of an abusive medical-testing laboratory, establish a new community of their own in the California woods, fend off humans who want to siphon their resources, and fight back against a rogue military unit that has trapped apes in work camps.
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2024
Li was expelled from the Party and imprisoned in work camps from 1959 to 1978, including eight years in solitary confinement, after criticizing Mao’s disastrous effort to modernize the agricultural sector using communist ideologies, causing a catastrophic famine.
—Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 4 Sep. 2024
He was convicted in June 2020 during a closed-door trial and sentenced to 16 years of hard labor in a work camp.
—Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 2 Aug. 2024
A week after Kristallnacht in 1938, Nazis took her father to a work camp.
—Emily Langer, Washington Post, 13 July 2024
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2024
Li was expelled from the Party and imprisoned in work camps from 1959 to 1978, including eight years in solitary confinement, after criticizing Mao’s disastrous effort to modernize the agricultural sector using communist ideologies, causing a catastrophic famine.
—Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 4 Sep. 2024
He was convicted in June 2020 during a closed-door trial and sentenced to 16 years of hard labor in a work camp.
—Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 2 Aug. 2024
A week after Kristallnacht in 1938, Nazis took her father to a work camp.
—Emily Langer, Washington Post, 13 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for work camp
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The group was later found, and Anne died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at age 15.—
Janine Henni,
People.com,
25 Feb. 2025
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And nearly half of Americans surveyed couldn't name a single German concentration camp or ghetto.—
Lee Cowan,
CBS News,
23 Feb. 2025
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His Polish father had fought for the Allied Armed Forces, while his Belarusian mother had survived a Nazi labor camp.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 Feb. 2025
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North Korea's Kim Jong Un maintains an iron grip through the threat and reality of labor camps and murder along with a fanatical propaganda personality cult.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
Newsweek,
10 Jan. 2025
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Jacob Elordi endures the horrors of a World War II prison camp in the new trailer for the upcoming miniseries, The Narrow Road to the Deep North.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
17 Mar. 2025
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The North Korean government has long denied the existence of political prison camps.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
2 Mar. 2025
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“Work camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/work%20camp. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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